I… are we saying dark souls was a flop that did bad? Cuz… boy do I have news for you.
Like yeah people complain and there are people who don’t like it but also the franchise is extremely popular and no one is cancelling from soft over this….
Just because people cry about something doesn’t mean it isn’t good.
They actually tried to cancel fromsoft as ableists but it simply didn’t work. It was a deluge of internet blog posts and hit pieces about accessibility and ableism, many legitimate grievances, but misdirected at fromsoft.
People should be mad at companies with no creative reason for not including quality accessibility settings
Otherwise we will have to agree to disagree whether the mechanical playing of a game is itself a particular art. Fromsoft seems to think so and I agree
No, they didn’t. Google “FromSoftware Ableist” or ableism and you find a handful of blogs from personal websites calling out FromSoftware for the practice. Nothing about canceling them
The actual call, for including an easy mode as an accessibility issue, is advocacy. It’s not a demand under threat of “canceling”. The loudest advocate for the cause, James Stephanie Sterling, has always framed it that way and that’s the only way I’ve ever actually seen it framed. Hell, they love the games more than most and just wish that more people had the capability/ time to play them.
Claiming that people are calling for dark souls to be canceled is a way for you to frame them as victims of something so you can feel heroic defending the status quo. You’re not some white knight, dude. FromSoft makes games without easy modes, and probably always will, and no one benefits from you loudly protecting them from nothing. Worse than nothing, because you’re just arguing that whoever gets to play those games now should be the only people to play those games forever.
Stop listening to people who want to make you angry about everything and actually listen to people you disagree with about petty shit like this. You might learn something about the world and about yourself.
I… are we saying dark souls was a flop that did bad? Cuz… boy do I have news for you.
Like yeah people complain and there are people who don’t like it but also the franchise is extremely popular and no one is cancelling from soft over this….
Just because people cry about something doesn’t mean it isn’t good.
They actually tried to cancel fromsoft as ableists but it simply didn’t work. It was a deluge of internet blog posts and hit pieces about accessibility and ableism, many legitimate grievances, but misdirected at fromsoft.
People should be mad at companies with no creative reason for not including quality accessibility settings
Otherwise we will have to agree to disagree whether the mechanical playing of a game is itself a particular art. Fromsoft seems to think so and I agree
No, they didn’t. Google “FromSoftware Ableist” or ableism and you find a handful of blogs from personal websites calling out FromSoftware for the practice. Nothing about canceling them
The actual call, for including an easy mode as an accessibility issue, is advocacy. It’s not a demand under threat of “canceling”. The loudest advocate for the cause, James Stephanie Sterling, has always framed it that way and that’s the only way I’ve ever actually seen it framed. Hell, they love the games more than most and just wish that more people had the capability/ time to play them.
Claiming that people are calling for dark souls to be canceled is a way for you to frame them as victims of something so you can feel heroic defending the status quo. You’re not some white knight, dude. FromSoft makes games without easy modes, and probably always will, and no one benefits from you loudly protecting them from nothing. Worse than nothing, because you’re just arguing that whoever gets to play those games now should be the only people to play those games forever.
Stop listening to people who want to make you angry about everything and actually listen to people you disagree with about petty shit like this. You might learn something about the world and about yourself.